First, make a file for your environment variables:

touch config/environment_variables.rb

We're using Devise so you should set Devise.secret_key in the environment_variables.rb file.

Copy over the database.yml file from config/sample/database.yml to config/database.yml:

cp config/sample/database.yml config/database.yml

Create the database using:

createdb blueprint_development

Migrate the database:

rake db:migrate

To seed the database, we have a rake task that loads users specifically for development purposes only.

rake db:seed:development

For faster development, you might want to add yourself to the db/seeds/development.rb file.

Start the server:

rails s

Happy developing!

There's a file, /config/environment_variables.rb, which contains environment variables (mostly keys) that are not safe to upload to GitHub (added to .gitignore) so if you create this file, you can set your environment variables here easily. For example:

ENV['S3_BUCKET'] = 'calblueprint-prod'

Since we use Git to deploy to Heroku, this file won't be included, so you'll have to set the environment variables manually, and this can be done just once. The equivalent of the above on Heroku is:

heroku config:add S3_BUCKET=calblueprint-prod

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